Archive for the ‘coaching’ Category
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Last night I was shown a clip of Australia's number 1 cyber bully, Tristan Barker. This story featured heavily in the New Zealand press where he is currently living with his father.
I suppose what brought this to home was that I coached this young person in a Saturday afternoon basketball ...
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Sunday, May 13th, 2012
One of the great privileges Penny and I had at Harvard was the allocation of a dedicated coach (Emma) who assisted us in the preparation of our presentation and helped us determine what the next level of work.
Prior to the presentation Emma organised 3 conference call meetings where we used ...
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
Over the past 2 months we have focused on preparing our teachers to differentiate instruction.
I'm writing this post to explain to readers within my own community why this emphasis on preparation and why we need to adopt three different strategies at the same time to gain the improvement in student ...
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I read this quote at the back ...
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
This is the second post on the issue of support for teachers. In the previous post "What constitutes support for a teacher?" I set the scene that we have been re conceiving our workforce plan with the loss of 50% of our substantive leaders in the school over the last ...
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
Let’s begin by acknowledging that it’s an honour and a privilege to coach. In thinking about some general principles that might guide coaches I came up with 5. If coaches follow these in their own style then they are less likely to have those awkward and stressful situations with players ...
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Here are two legends of Australian Basketball Lindsay and Andrew Gaze. Their names are the first most people recall if you mention the Melbourne Tigers.
As I have written about before my son Mitchell plays in the Melbourne Tigers Under 18's and is trained by Lindsay. One of the things I ...
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